Jane Austen's books have been adapted countless times, and we've put together a ranking of the best Jane Austen movies. But ...

Keeley Hawes, who stars as Cassandra Austen in the BBC drama, and director Aisling Walsh chime in on the debate along with writer Andrea Gibb who calls the show “a feminist piece.” ...

Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 British period film starring Emma Thompson as Elinor, the oldest Dashwood sister, who finds true love despite having the odds stacked against her in the late 18th ...

“Jane Austen Turns in Her Grave,” a headline in the Daily Mail read. Cracknell, 41, ... Your theater work has often explored feminist themes. Is this a feminist work?

This year might mark Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, but historian Lucy Worsley thinks women’s rights have not improved as drastically from the Regency period as people think.

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...

Ms. Byrne is the author of “The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things” and “The Genius of Jane Austen.” If “Pride and Prejudice” is the most joyful and life-affirming of Jane Austen ...

Based on Jane Austen’s classic novel, playwright Kate Hamill offers a fast-paced and lively version of this story of self-discovery. The production runs Nov. 14-Dec. 15 at the Multicultural Arts ...

From a 21st-century vantage point, it’s all too easy to pigeonhole the novels of Jane Austen as the ultimate in prim and ...

Austen’s novels could be considered feminist for her time, but she never let social messages interfere with a good story. Like Austen herself, Dacha’s production of “Emma” places value on ...

The trailer for “Persuasion,” the debut feature from the British theater director Carrie Cracknell, landed in mid-June. Social media attacks, led by fans of the Jane Austen novel on which the ...